Bathinda: After World Food Prize, now the junior water gift Stockholm has also gone to someone from India.
Young Indian-America Eshani Jha has won it for her research on decontamate water.
The Swedish crown daughter, Putri Victoria announced the winner on Tuesday night during the online award ceremony as part of the World Water Week at Capital Stockholm.
Eshani Jha comes from Lynbrook High School in San José, California, and he has found a simpler and cost-effective way to clean fresh water by replacing activated carbon with Biochar.
This will make the water filter efficient and cheaper.
The Stockholm Junior Water Prize is to win the 15-to-20 age group that responds to the main water challenges.
Previously, Trinidadian Shakuntala HarakSingh Thilsted had won world food prizes.
Eshani Jha said: “I feel honored to receive this prize, especially with so many extraordinary contributions from all over the world.
I hope we can make a better water world.
We are truly a future of water-related science.” The invention targets a particular contaminant class , especially pesticides, which appear contaminants, and heavy metals.
He increases the ability of Biochar to act like a sponge for this contaminant, creating a ‘super sponge’.
The jury said: “Around the world, new water contaminants are found and increasing concentration of existing pollutants are recorded.” Stockholm International Water Institute, Siwi, founded a prize in 1997 with Xylem as a founding partner.
This year’s award function is online.